A Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto, 1594-1709Yale University Press, 1916 - 153 pages |
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... Garrick and other early collectors . The arguments put forward in Shakespeare Folios and Quartos to prove that all the nine plays were printed in 1619 were numerous and elaborate . They started with Mr. W. W. Greg's demonstrations from ...
... Garrick and other early collectors . The arguments put forward in Shakespeare Folios and Quartos to prove that all the nine plays were printed in 1619 were numerous and elaborate . They started with Mr. W. W. Greg's demonstrations from ...
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... Garrick and Capell were old friends and though they were estranged towards the end of their lives , it seems likely that Capell's presentation was inspired by Garrick's bequest . The Shakespearian por- tion of this is markedly inferior ...
... Garrick and Capell were old friends and though they were estranged towards the end of their lives , it seems likely that Capell's presentation was inspired by Garrick's bequest . The Shakespearian por- tion of this is markedly inferior ...
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... Garrick , preserved in the Museum ; 4. the collection of Mr. Kemble of Drury Lane theatre , and 5. that of the late Mr. Jennings of Gopsal in Leicestershire , now the property of Lord Curzon . " From the standpoint here adopted he could ...
... Garrick , preserved in the Museum ; 4. the collection of Mr. Kemble of Drury Lane theatre , and 5. that of the late Mr. Jennings of Gopsal in Leicestershire , now the property of Lord Curzon . " From the standpoint here adopted he could ...
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... Garrick and cropped and mounted in imitation of Malone . It was this collection , which with some added quartos , including the better of the two known copies of the 1603 Hamlet , was sold by the present Duke to Mr. Henry E. Huntington ...
... Garrick and cropped and mounted in imitation of Malone . It was this collection , which with some added quartos , including the better of the two known copies of the 1603 Hamlet , was sold by the present Duke to Mr. Henry E. Huntington ...
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... to Edinburgh University , which Garrick inaugurated , and Capell , Storer , Malone , Dyce , Halliwell and Huth continued . The United States is not going to remain forever with the Barton collection at Boston [ xxxvi ] INTRODUCTION.
... to Edinburgh University , which Garrick inaugurated , and Capell , Storer , Malone , Dyce , Halliwell and Huth continued . The United States is not going to remain forever with the Barton collection at Boston [ xxxvi ] INTRODUCTION.
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April Barton sold Bedford BODLEIAN BOSTON PUBLIC Bound in brown Bound in green Bound in half Bound in red BRITISH MUSEUM brown calf Capell presented Catchwords Church book-plates Church sold Collated & Perfect CRICHTON STUART Cropped at top December Devonshire sold EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY edition ELIZABETHAN CLUB facsimile fly-leaf FOLGER Folio Garrick bequeathed Garrick's arms George Steevens green morocco half calf half morocco Halliwell presented Hamlet Henry Henry IV HUNTINGTON incorporated as Lenox injuring some headlines Inlaid and bound inner margin January Jolley King Lenox incorporated Lenox Library Locker sold lower margin Malone presented mended in lower mended in margins Merchant of Venice Othello outer margin Pickering plays in Vol Pressmark Printed quartos red levant morocco red morocco Richard Richard II Riviere Romeo and Juliet Seruants signatures Sotheby stained Stevens sold straight-grained morocco Tite Title mended Titus Andronicus TRINITY COLLEGE Type-page verso title Warwick copy William Shakespeare YORK PUBLIC
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Page 43 - M. William Shake-speare, His True Chronicle History of the life and death of King Lear, and his three Daughters.
Page xvii - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 89 - The Tragedy of King Richard the third. Containing, His treacherous Plots against his brother Clarence : the pittiefull murther of his innocent nephewes : his tyrannicall vsurpation : with the whole course of his detested life, and most deserued death.
Page xiii - It had bene a thing, we confesse, worthie to have bene wished, that the author himselfe had liv'd to have set forth and overseen his owne writings; but since it hath bin ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine to have collected and publish'd them...
Page 69 - As it hath been sundrie times publikely acted by the right honourable, the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants. Written by William Shakespeare. LONDON Printed by VS for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley. 1600.
Page 39 - Chronicle Historic of the life and death of King LEAR and his three Daughters. With the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his sullen and assumed humor of TOM of Bedlam : As it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall upon S.
Page 21 - The History of Henry the fourth, With the battell at Shrewseburie, betweene the King, and Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henry Hotspur of the North. With the humorous conceites of Sir lohn Falstalffe. Newly corrected by W. Shake-speare. (Ornament) London, Printed for Mathew Law, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard, neere vnto S. Augustines gate, at the signe of the Foxe. 1608.
Page 30 - The Chronicle History of Henry the fift, With his battell fought at Agin Court in France. Together with Auntieut Pistoll.
Page 45 - A | Pleasant | Conceited Comedie | called, | Loues labors, lost. | As it was presented before her Highnes | this last Christmas. | Newly corrected and augmented | By W. Shakespere.
Page 3 - Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect Coppie.